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| Waiting patiently for us to moor up |
It was a bit overcast as we set off to Tibberton this
morning, we are only going a couple of miles again today, but that’s enough for
us! We had a few rain spots while we
were chugging along but luckily not enough to get my hair wet! It then brightened up and the sun eventually
came out for a while.
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| The Bridge Inn |
We didn’t meet any other boats and soon we were at Tibberton
and moored in the visitor moorings by The Bridge Inn pub. There was only one other boat there so very
quiet and that left not long after we moored, but during the afternoon three
other boats joined us, the canal is very quiet though but still a lot of hire
boats around for this time of year.
Tibberton is a small village four miles from Worcester yet
that is four hours boating on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal! This canal was built between 1794 and
1815. Many different cargoes were
carried by narrowboats including coal, matches, flour and chocolate. Two big companies to use this canal were Cadbury
and Worcester Porcelain. The boats were
very often pulled by a pair of donkeys. This worked well unless the donkeys did
not get on!
Tibberton has two pubs and once had a famous drinker and
strong man. In the 17th
Century, Roger Tandy could drink a hogshead of Beer which once empty he could
replace on the ground with only a slight movement of his arm. I know three people (Kev, Steve and Ian) who
can today drink a hogshead, but not of beer its usually Gin or Wine but the
only thing ending up on the floor is usually them!
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| Smugs in my chair by the fire! |
There is also a shop/post office up in the village so I
walked up there in the afternoon to get some milk and just along the road there
was a house selling bags of kindling for £1 and free range eggs for 80p a half
dozen, so got some of those.
It got rather chilly late afternoon so we lit the fire and
Smuggler curled up in my chair!
We are staying here tonight then off down 12 locks tomorrow
to Worcester.
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| Moored at Tibberton |
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